Desktop Email Clients
{% include legacy/cardv2.html
title="Thunderbird"
image="/assets/img/legacy_svg/3rd-party/thunderbird.svg"
description="Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform email, newsgroup, news feed, and chat (XMPP, IRC, Twitter) client developed by the Thunderbird community, and previously by the Mozilla Foundation."
website="https://www.thunderbird.net/"
privacy-policy="https://www.mozilla.org/privacy/thunderbird/"
forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/discussion-thunderbird/659"
source="https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/"
windows="https://www.thunderbird.net"
mac="https://www.thunderbird.net"
linux="https://www.thunderbird.net/"
freebsd="https://www.freshports.org/mail/thunderbird/"
openbsd="http://openports.se/mail/mozilla-thunderbird"
netbsd="http://pkgsrc.se/mail/thunderbird"
%}
{% include legacy/cardv2.html
title="Mailpile"
image="/assets/img/legacy_svg/3rd-party/mailpile.svg"
description="Mailpile is a free, community funded, open source email client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features."
website="https://www.mailpile.is/"
privacy-policy="https://www.mailpile.is/privacy.html"
tor="clgs64523yi2bkhz.onion"
forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/"
github="https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile"
linux="https://www.mailpile.is/download/linux.html"
%}
{% include legacy/cardv2.html
title="Mailvelope"
image="/assets/img/legacy_svg/3rd-party/mailvelope.svg"
description="Mailvelope is a browser extension that enables the exchange of encrypted emails following the OpenPGP encryption standard."
website="https://www.mailvelope.com/en"
privacy-policy="https://www.mailvelope.com/en/privacy-policy"
forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/"
github="https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope"
firefox="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mailvelope/"
chrome="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mailvelope/kajibbejlbohfaggdiogboambcijhkke?hl"
edge="https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/mailvelope/dgcbddhdhjppfdfjpciagmmibadmoapc"
%}
Worth Mentioning
- NeoMutt - NeoMutt is an open-source command line mail reader (or MUA) for Linux and BSD. It’s a fork of Mutt with added features.
Mobile Email Clients
Android Email Clients
{% include legacy/cardv2.html
title="FairEmail"
image="/assets/img/legacy_svg/3rd-party/fairemail.svg"
description="FairEmail is a minimal, open source email app, using open standards (IMAP, SMTP, OpenPGP) with a low data and battery usage."
website="https://email.faircode.eu/"
privacy-policy="https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/PRIVACY.md"
forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/"
github="https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail"
fdroid="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.email/"
googleplay="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.email"
%}
{% include legacy/cardv2.html
title="K-9 Mail"
image="/assets/img/legacy_svg/3rd-party/k9mail.svg"
description="K-9 Mail is an independent mail application that supports both POP3 and IMAP mailboxes, but only supports push mail for IMAP."
website="https://k9mail.app/"
privacy-policy="https://k9mail.app/privacy"
forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/"
github="https://github.com/k9mail"
fdroid="https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fsck.k9/"
googleplay="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9"
%}
iOS Email Clients
{% include legacy/cardv2.html
title="Canary Mail"
image="/assets/img/legacy_svg/3rd-party/canarymail.svg"
labels="color==warning::link==https://canarymail.io/faq.html::text==Closed source::tooltip==The source programming code for Canary Mail is not available. Canary Mail is a proprietary application."
description="Canary Mail is a paid email client designed to make end-to-end encryption seamless with security features such as a biometric app lock."
website="https://canarymail.io/"
privacy-policy="https://canarymail.io/privacy.html"
forum="https://forum.privacytools.io/t/"
ios="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/canary-mail/id1236045954"
%}
Worth Mentioning
- Letterbox - Letterbox is a free open-source mail client for iOS made as a part of an ongoing research project at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.